Twitter mania sure happened fast. I mean, last year when I watched Sunao Ni Narenakute I hardly heard of it and now everyone and their mum has it. The media follows it closely because a lot of things happen there - personal revelations, artists establishing relationships and artists communicating with their fans. Since Twitter stars became that much closer, close enough to reach.
Lately I found myself going there more and more often, browsing this account or that. At some point I began to consider getting one. I kind of didn't like the idea, I felt a sense of protest against social networks and Twitter specifically. Why Twitter? I reasoned: "the attention span of a modern man is already minuscule, it must be some kind of bureaucratic plot to make it even tinier." "There's no way I can fit my thoughts into a space of 140 characters", so I kept thinking to myself.
But in the end I just saw how I'm wasting so much time checking this account and that so I decided it's only reasonable to get it the hell over with. I don't think I'm going to actually use it much because I want to keep all my rambling here, but who knows how it will turn out. And I did sometimes have a strong desire to write reply to something a certain artist said so maybe I will now.
Anyway now it's done. Here are some of the accounts I considered.
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Gackt.
twitter.com/#!/GACKT
contains a mix of Mandarin, Korean, Japanese and English. There's a lot of interesting stuff here. Even the English tweets alone are very numerous. It's kind of amazing that you have a fair chance to ask a question and get a reply. But one thing that bothers me: What's with the "sweetie?" He sounds like a perverted old man.
Follows: Yoshiki, Sugizo, Miyavi, Shinya, Hamasaki, Demi Moore and ashton kutcher, Barack Obama (lol!)
twitter.com/#!/gackttweets => Gackt himself follows it. I bet he monitors whether they translated him correctly lol.
Shou
twitter.com/#!/AliceNine_SHOU
At first I though can't be botherd to try to read what he writes unless it's an inscription under a photo. But now I make an effort now and then. Shou never fails to amuse me by answering to the most ridiculous questions by random fans. And he seems to get annoyed easily which is pretty funny.
Follows: Gackt, Yoshuki, countless PSC bands.
Hiroto
I'm too lazy and illeterate to actually read what he writes, but he posts such magnificent pictures I was totally mesmerized. I mean everyone snaps tons of pictures nowadays and you hardly appreciate it just because it's so common, but the boy has some serious talent. His photographs of the sky... I think I fell for him a little.
twitter.com/#!/alice9_hiroto
mjjeje, 6002theMicky and 0101xiahtic
Do I even have to say anything?)
HeeChul
twitter.com/#!/HEEDICTATOR
It's all in Korean, but who cares. Heechul posts pics in almost every post which is mostly him and random artists and sometimes his cat. And doesn't forget to comment how pretty he looks. He does too.
Follows: HongKi, Miss A and other SM artists, of course.
I'm surprised he doesn't follow Gackt. Oh maybe he saw that one tweet where someone asked him whether he knows that Heechul from SuJu is his fan and he replied like: "Who?" XD
I don't follow him though. I don't even know what he's doing in this list but whatever.